Catherine Genna wrote:

>What's even weirder is that calves drink "milk replacer" so there can be
more cow's milk for human babies to drink.  We deprive calves of their
mother's milk, so human babies can have the same "privlege"!>

Well, not in my experience. Maybe the very large dairies do this but
most of the dairy herds I worked with feed calves cow milk, it won't be
their mother's milk, but milk from other cows whose milk is not destined
for the bulk tank or just kept out for feeding the calves. Milk replacer
is very expensive and the calves seem to do better on fresh cow milk.
Sound familiar?

Donna Hansen
Burnaby, BC (loving these animal lactation threads)